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Fantasy Cricket 2017 – Week Eighteen (by Ian Hewson)

And the season has ended! A win for the 2s and losses for the 1s and 3s ends the season, though all three teams scored relatively well in terms of fantasy team points.

It has been a battle of the Sparks for the last month or so and in the end, Lewis comes out victorious by just 5 points. He also claims Manager of the Month for August/September.

The battle at the bottom was even closer. Luke Desave dragged himself off the bottom last week for the first time in two months – however, Mark Salter rallied and snuck back in to second bottom, leaving Desave as this year’s worst Manager.

Team name

Manager

Overall Score

Monthly score

1

Nynehead United

Lewis Sparks

1980

599

2

Bright Sparks CC

Alex Sparks

1975

536

3

No Name Yet CC

Arron Campbell

1885

579

4

Six Offenders

Aks Latifi

1787

373

5

Steau Needarest

Macaulay Campbell

1631

481

6

King of the Swingers

Ian Hewson

1609

328

7

Top Shelf Tornados

Amanda Moysey

1586

431

8

Spin to Win

Rob Moysey

1578

453

9

Wickets

Violet Bowden

1539

477

10

6 or Gay

Lee Nichol

1525

479

11

All Sparks

Lewis Sparks

1493

282

12

Haircut 100

Mark Bray

1478

313

13

Walking on Sunshine

David Derrick

1461

467

14

Heinz Tinned Spaghetti

Kayden Hine

1448

369

15

Hose XI

Luke Vernon

1420

444

16

Victorious Secrets

Robyn Hollick

1400

252

17

The Scorer’s Choice

Shellie Jarman

1330

303

18

Oldest Swinger in Town

Dave Luxton

1248

179

19

I Don’t Know What I’m Doing

Bernie Burnett

1215

217

20

Evett’s XI

Ben Evett

1196

194

21

I Need a Name XI

Jack Beal

1191

214

22

Fingers

Richard Henwood

1147

154

23

Crout for a Duck

Kev Crout

1134

152

24

Fine Legs

Oliver Beale

1125

229

25

President’s XI

Duncan Short

1118

210

26

Ball Breakers

Tyler Fyfe

1104

203

27

Hard Aren’t They

Trevor Brooks

1020

196

28

I Just Followed Through

Mark Salter

907

203

29

Brokebat Mountain

Luke Desave

899

253

Players

As the season has ended, after the weekly section I will list every player who was listed this season (50 in total) so you can see where you finished as a player. I will also list the top 5 scorers in batting, bowling and fielding.

Weekly

Just to rub it in, Rob Moysey takes top scorer for yet another week, scoring 90 and taking 3 wickets to assert his dominance. Kayden’s first and last league 50 sees him take second while Trev Brooks comes in 2 points behind with his own half century.

Player Name

Score

1

R Moysey

80

2

K Hine

26

3

Tr Brooks

24

4

S Whitefield

23

5

Ri Henwood

21

6

L Nichol

19

7

J Nichol

15

8

Ry Henwood

11

9

R Adams

10

10

K Crout

9

Overall

Ending almost 200 points clear of second, Rob Moysey cruises his way to top player with a sterling finish to the season. The rest of the top 10 stays fairly similar; with Alex Sparks sneaking past Neil Hendy to secure a 10th placed finish.

Player Name

Score

1

R Moysey

485

2

L Desave

288

3

Ri Henwood

228

4

M Bray

213

5

Ar Campbell

212

6

T Trott

208

7

O Beale

193

8

I Hewson

182

9

J Nichol

177

10

A Sparks

148

11

N Hendy

147

12

R Adams

146

13

K Crout

144

14

D Luxton

139

15

M Salter

128

16

J Beal

123

17

B Evett

121

18

M Campbell

111

19

M Saunders

110

20

K Hine

107

21

A Latifi

93

22

D Campbell

83

23

S Burrough

77

24

Tr Brooks

74

25

T Fyfe

71

26

W Derrick

68

27

C Burrough

67

28

D Drew

66

29

M Cave

60

30

T Perry

47

31

R Davies

38

32

N Crossing

36

33

L Sparks

35

34

Ry Henwood

32

35

L Nichol

31

36

S Whitefield

27

37

O Wilkins

26

38

A Hutchings

22

39

D Derrick

14

40

L Vernon

12

41

C Hendy

6

42

To Brooks

4

43

An Campbell

1

44

J Hurry

1

45

A Rimell

0

46

D Davis

0

47

K Symons

0

48

M Holloway

0

49

C Shapland

-3

50

T Hawkings

-4

Top 5 Batsmen

1

M Bray

190

2

A Sparks

125

3

D Luxton

120

4

K Crout

111

5

R Moysey

107

One bloke who really enjoyed playing in the seconds is Mark Bray, who averaged over 260 in the side (I won’t mention his first team average) to win the Top Batsman by some distance. Luxton and Sparks are in there after some consistent scoring and Crout comes in fourth thanks to be one of only two players to hit a ton (the other being Bray) while Moysey excellent efforts with the bat in the last couple of games sees him sneak into 5th.

Top 5 Bowlers

1

R Moysey

348

2

L Desave

195

3

Ri Henwood

168

4

I Hewson

159

5

J Nichol

153

Rob Moysey cruises to top spot by over 150 points thanks to his numerous 5+ wickets in the last few wickets, including wrapping up 5 playing for the 3s against some players who didn’t know what cricket was. The rest of the top 4 are rewarded for consistency across the season by regularly accruing 10-15 points per game with the odd big scorer.

Top 5 Fielders

1

K Hine

53

2

Ar Campbell

41

3

B Evett

40

4

M Campbell

37

5

Ri Henwood

36

Obviously this includes appearance points as well, but unsurprisingly Kayden Hine takes the top fielder, with his work behind the stumps being rewarded with consistent points scoring. The rest of the 4 are rewarded for their catching and run outs, while Ben Evett’s early season keeping in the 2s helps his scores be bulked up a bit.